 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 24, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  CHAN, BORRELLO, MATTERA -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to disorderly conduct
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  240.20  of  the  penal law is amended to read as
     2  follows:
     3  § 240.20 Disorderly conduct.
     4    A person is guilty of disorderly conduct when, with  intent  to  cause
     5  public  inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk
     6  thereof such person:
     7    1. [He] engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous  or  threatening
     8  behavior; or
     9    2. [He] makes unreasonable noise; or
    10    3.  [In]  in a public place, [he] uses abusive or obscene language, or
    11  makes an obscene gesture; or
    12    4. [Without] without lawful authority, [he] disturbs any lawful assem-
    13  bly or meeting of persons; or
    14    5. [He] obstructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic; or
    15    6. [He] congregates with other persons in a public place  and  refuses
    16  to comply with a lawful order of the police to disperse; or
    17    7.  [He]  creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any
    18  act which serves no legitimate purpose[.], including, but  not  limited,
    19  littering; or
    20    8. urinates or defecates in a public place; or
    21    9. smokes any substance in a prohibited area; or
    22    10. possesses an open container of alcohol in a public place; or
    23    11. smokes marihuana in a public place; or
    24    12. disobeys signage in any municipal or state park, including but not
    25  limited to, printed notices and placards.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    For the purposes of this section, the term "public place" shall mean a
     2  place  to  which the public or a substantial group of persons has access
     3  including, but not limited to,  any  highway,  street,  road,  sidewalk,
     4  parking  area,  shopping  area,  place of amusement, playground, park or
     5  beach,  except  that  the definition of a public place shall not include
     6  those premises duly licensed for the sale and consumption  of  alcoholic
     7  beverages  on  the  premises  or within their own private property. Such
     8  public place shall also include the interior  of  any  stationary  motor
     9  vehicle  which  is  on any highway, street, road, parking area, shopping
    10  area, playground, park or beach located within the city.
    11    Disorderly conduct is a violation.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law.
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